We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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